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Sabal palmetto (/ ˈ s eɪ b ə l /, SAY-bəl), also known as cabbage palm, [5] cabbage palmetto, [3] sabal palm, blue palmetto, [3] Carolina palmetto, [6] common palmetto, [6] Garfield's tree, and swamp cabbage, [7] is one of 15 species of palmetto palm. It is native to the Southeast United States, the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, the West ...
This midrib can vary in length; and it is due to this variation that leaf blades of certain species of Sabal are strongly curved or strongly costapalmate (as in Sabal palmetto and Sabal etonia) or weakly curved (almost flattened), weakly costapalmate, (as in Sabal minor). Like many other palms, the fruit of Sabal are drupe, that typically ...
Sabal causiarum is known as the hat palm or Puerto Rican hat palm [10] or "Puerto Rico palmetto" [3] [11] in English. In Spanish, along with Sabal domingensis, it is known as palma cana in the Dominican Republic, and palma de sombrero, yarey, [4] palma de escoba, [9] palma de abanico, or palma de cogollo [11] in Puerto Rico.
The Sabal Palm Sanctuary is a 557-acre (225-hectare) nature reserve and bird sanctuary located in the delta of the Rio Grande Valley in Cameron County near Brownsville, Texas. It is noted for being one of the last locations in the Rio Grande Valley with a profuse grove of sabal palms , an edible-heart-bearing palm much prized by pre-Hispanic ...
Sabal minor, commonly known as the dwarf palmetto, [4] is a small species of palm. It is native to the deep southeastern and south-central United States and northeastern Mexico . It is naturally found in a diversity of habitats, including maritime forests, swamps, floodplains, and occasionally on drier sites. [ 5 ]
The palm family, Arecaceae, is widespread in the Caribbean. Globally there are about 191 genera and 2339 species as reported in 2004 by Carlo Morici. [1] Their distribution is biased toward islands – 36% of genera and 52% of species are found only on islands, while 32% of genera and 6% of species are found only on continents.